emily m danforth the miseducation of cameron post

That boy had been very sweet and caring and underwent a transformation that made me think he’d been to a program like this. Sadly, I was reminded of one of the Duggar boys on T.V.s 19 Kids and Counting or the current show, Counting On on TLC. One boy, the son of a megachurch pastor, was sent to the program for being too weak and effeminate.

To program staff, Cameron’s roommate developed an unhealthy level of interest in the Minnesota Vikings and bonded in inappropriate, masculine ways, with her Dad over football. Students are assigned same sex roommate to begin to develop typical same sex friendships without lust and sexual attraction, which they find troubling. In Cameron’s case she is somewhat shamed for her parents giving her an androgynous name and is encouraged to embrace femininity. While the students in the program are treated very decently and do willingly comply with much of the program they are expected to work to block feelings and fantasies of same sex attraction or drugs or whatever their “sin” is. Later the decision is made to send her to a program for Christian teens that proclaims there is no “homosexuality” only sin. In the aftermath of the tragedy she immerses herself in videos as an escape. She finds herself attracted to another girl just when tragedy strikes her family. I wanted to be like him, to drink icy beers after meets and to pull myself into the guard stand without using the ladder, to own a Jeep without a roll-bar and be the gap-toothed ringleader of all the lifeguards.” “Most of the girls on my team had a crush on Ted. In some, but not all ways, she identifies with young men, holding them as role models. She’s a swimmer and a tomboy who hangs out mostly with boys. The StoryĬameron Post is a teenage girl in Miles City, Montana. It almost seems “quaint” now in this year of “gender fluidity” and California legalizing gender-less birth certificates to read about a teenage girl sent to Christian program to help teens to stop committing the sin of lust toward those of the same sex. I bought this book a few years ago intending to read it for Banned Books Week.

Emily m danforth the miseducation of cameron post